Photos of the Day 09/20

Children with buckets sit on a sidewalk in Skofla Loka, Slovenia, on Monday. Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters

Tiny water drops from a recent rain magnify the hairs on a sage leaf in Omaha, Neb., on Monday. Nati Harnik/AP

An Indian Muslim looks on as monsoon clouds hover over the Jama Masjid, one of India's biggest mosques in New Delhi on Monday. India is experiencing an excessive rainfall this season after a drought last year. The annual monsoon season from June to October brings rains that are vital to agriculture in India. Anupam Nath/AP

A Boca Juniors' fan climbs onto the fence as others light flares during their Argentine First Division soccer match against Colon de Santa Fe in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sunday. Marcos Brindicci/Reuters

Irish artist and heiress to the Guinness family, Daphne Guinness, arrives at the memorial service for late fashion designer Alexander McQueen at St. Paul's Cathedral, in central London, on Monday. Paul Hackett/Reuters

Philllipe Croizon, a Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated, holds a French flag during a press conference in Wissant, France, on Monday. Croizon crossed the English Channel this weekend using leg protheses that have flippers attached. He had expected the tough crossing to take up to 24 hours, but Croizon finished in only 13-1/2 hours. Michel Spingler/AP

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning greets his brother, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning after their NFL football game in Indianapolis, Ind., on Sunday. Brent Smith/Reuters

Inessa Rif of Finland performs during the rhythmic gymnastics world championships in Moscow on Monday. Grigory Dukor/Reuters

Adrian Raeside from Canada, holds a photograph of his grandfather Sir Charles Seymour Wright and great-uncle Thomas Griffith Taylor in front of a silk Union flag that belonged to captain Robert Falcon Scott and was used on the two expeditions he led to the Antarctic, at the Christie's auction house in London. The photograph and flag are part of Charles Seymour Wright's collection of relics from Scott's British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913 and will be sold at auction in London on Sept. 22.Matt Dunham/AP

A woman holds a girl with South Ossetian flag during the Independence Day celebration in South Ossetia's main city of Tskhinvali, Georgia, on Monday. Kazbeg Basayev/Reuters

A car is partially submerged in floodwaters after various rivers overflowed their banks when hurricane Karl hit, at a road in Medellin de Bravo near Veracruz, Mexico, on Sunday. Eliana Aponte/Reuters

Members of the Dutch Royal Honor Guard rehearse ahead of the Dutch 2011 budget presentation by guiding their horses through smoke and gunfire on the beach at Scheveningen, Netherlands, on Monday. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will present the budget in The Hague on Sept. 21. Michale Kooren/Reuters

An overloaded bus passes by a flooded area as waters slowly recede in parts of Sultan Kot village, Pakistan, on Monday. Aaron Favila/AP

A Western tourist draws the Ziggurat of Ur ruins near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on Sunday. Unlike many of the Western officials who tour Iraq in helicopters or armoured vehicles wearing flak jackets, a group of 23 foreign tourists from 10 different nationalities of Europe and America visited many of historic sites, using an ordinary tour bus, wearing only their shirts, trousers, and shorts. Atef Hassan/Reuters

The remains of a burned house are seen in Harriman, Utah, after a fire swept though, destroying several homes overnight. A wind-stoked wildfire sparked at a firing range during a National Guard training session blazed across thousands of acres Monday. Jennifer Dobner/AP

US soldiers inspect a site after a suicide car-bomb exploded in Behsood district of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday. The attack on a NATO convoy reportedly injured four Afghan civilians. Rahmat Gul/AP

Seven-year-old Syrian Twitter activist Bana Alabed disappeared from the airwaves over the weekend in war-torn Aleppo, worrying members of her worldwide following. Many breathed a sigh of relief on Monday, however, after the BBC reported that Bana was safe.